toner56.bsky.social
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Wireless internet*
* some wires required
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And so so so so many people would have more kids but are held back by finances, healthcare access, security/stability in their lives…
And yet none of the pro-natal people ever want to address those problems. It’s almost like their actual goal isn’t the birth rate…
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So about that whole “needing the dollar collapse” thing…
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I never understood why “Social Justice Warrior” was such a common insult on Reddit a decade or so ago, but man was that extremely telling about the future
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Yeah well, considering the impact Twitter has had on the world, maybe limiting impact is a good thing
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“Guess I’ll just hold my breath then”
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We are so close to being on the same page here.
You say Luke shouldn’t have even a moment of weakness. Luke agrees with you!!! He punishes himself by isolating from society and the Force itself!
You, me, Luke, Rian all agree it was bad! Only the rest of us say we still do bad things sometimes
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Probably why he didn’t actually stab him then, eh?
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The literal text also says: “the last thing I saw were the eyes of a frightened boy whose Master had failed him”
THE WHOLE POINT is that night Luke saw Vader *AND* a sleeping teenager, and had two opposite reactions as a result. The now versus the future. And the dilemma is both were right!
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The literal text of the film is: “I looked inside and it was beyond what I ever imagined ... He would bring destruction and pain and death and the end of everything I love because of what he will become”
Luke saw Ben and Snoke becoming the next Vader and Palpatine, and wanted to stop it
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And let’s be honest, whatever the in-universe justification is, we know he was just cribbing plot points from Dune (which I believe also didn’t flesh out the story behind the restrictions until much later, and instead just gave it a name and the consequences)
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Forgot huge one: Obi to Fallen Anakin
Luke wants to save Vader, but he consistently has to overrule his instincts. Even then he only stops from killing Vader by seeing himself in Vader’s beaten, handless defeat
Same way he stops from killing Kylo by seeing a scared child. He knows he failed, again
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Luke repeatedly instinctively and/or was emotionally manipulated into trying to kill Vader and Palpatine. In the cave, at Cloud City, in the Throne Room (multiple times). It’s how Jedi deal with evil in almost every single circumstance (Vader and Mara the only exceptions?)
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It’s not alien at all, that’s the default response to a great evil, even by Jedi.
Qui/Obi to Maul, Obi/Anakin to Sidious (x2), Yoda to Sidious, Mace and co to Palpatine, Yoda to Palpatine, LUKE TO VADER, Luke to Jabba, Luke to Palpatine
Luke only tried to save Vader *after* learning he’s family
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The organized resistance, yes, but one of the main points of Canto Bight was there is a galaxy full of people who are ready to resist, they just need to be motivated and activated
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He chose to isolate because he failed Ben (just like Yoda).
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The tragic element is already present! Luke igniting his lightsaber is what causes Ben to flee and fully become Kylo.
You don’t need to add things that are already explicitly part of the movie!
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It was the heart of the movie!
- Modern message about military industrial complex.
- Connection to the wider universe, hope for the future (rebel and force capable children)
- the code breaker sells out the shuttle escape plan.
The whole climatic battle only happens because of Canto Bight!
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Because they can’t reliably communicate? They regularly jam sensors (see battle of Endor), so presumably they can also jam communications enough to seriously disrupt remote pilots.
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There was that fleet that droids took and landed in empty space that Thrawn used to start his rise
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Dirty? Yes. Inferior? Not so much. And I say this as someone with solar panels on his roof.
Oil is remarkable in its energy density and ability to transport. Also not seasonally/weather dependent.
Nuclear is good too, but much harder to ramp up/down with demand, and longer breakeven costs
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I mean…. That was clearly part of the subtext?
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I walked into a man’s office around 2018 and he had an entire wall FULL of conservative memes, of which ~2/3 were mocking AOC specifically. It was astounding
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lol, that’s not true.
Not a *single* one?? Like cmon, there are tons of middle/working class people who don’t know shit about politics or laws and that matters!
If you don’t know how rich white people will abuse the law, you don’t know how to write the law effectively.
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Well, they certainly have a consistent view point about Jon-white people…
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What’s your top 10 then?
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And by home you mean to South Carolina where he lives with his wife and soon to be born child?
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“We should hold him accountable”
Oh, for his possible corruption?
“No, not that. Nothing like that at all”
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It appears that (at least for now) we’re outsourcing it to the Minnesota Fed, so at least still within the US government
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I thought I was very upfront that I was confused and trying to figure it out? Going to SJL’s wiki doesn’t show a Turner, but the original thread did.
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Thanks, that was my confusion. I went to Jackson Lee’s wiki and saw she was succeeded by someone else. I didn’t realize Houston had reps die in back to back years
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Turner?
Mike Turner (R) who voted against is from Ohio, but maybe you mean someone else?
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I don’t think Turner had a town hall, otherwise I would’ve been there to yell at him.
He did lose a chairmanship because of his Ukraine support so he has reason to be mad at Johnson
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For Bouie it’s the complete opposite. If he ever does *not* defend SpiderMan 3 then you know it’s an impostor
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If there’s one thing I know about Bouie it’s that he will defend SpiderMan 3 to the end of his days.
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Meanwhile I’m over here with my 8% gain from buying stocks on Tuesday.
Shrug
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FWIW, Fain is for the auto tariffs on Mexico and Canada, but said these universal ones are reckless.
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Then what's your explanation for why yields went *down* during other market crashes and economic uncertainty (see 2008, 2020) indicating 10Y TNotes were in demand for safety, but investors decided to pull *out* of TNotes this time around?
Why is cash and shorter term good this time but not before?
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The whole point of following the yields on 10 year T Notes is they were the 'safest investment' and 'as good as cash', which is why yields went *down* when people got spooked.
If yields are going up, that means money isn't going from stocks to bonds, but from *dollars* to *non-dollar* investments!
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If that was his plan, I don’t think he would’ve been talking up tariffs for months and all during his campaign and decades leading up to it
He told everyone exactly what he was going to do!
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Can’t trump then veto them ending the emergency?
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Insane. He used to watch nominating conventions for fun on weekends!!
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Then what does it mean?
Money is leaving the stock market. Yields going up indicate people aren’t buying treasuries.
So if people are selling stocks and not buying treasuries, then where are they investing the money in the US?
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Yup, but even if Trump vetoes it's politically as important just to force Republicans to take an official stance via an up or down vote.
If they vote against, then they are publicly opposing Trump's policies (which will hurt them with Rs). If they vote in favor, then it hurts with Ind voters
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Does it mean anything that goals are above xG for the season? Is that just a flurry of penalties, a one season fluke, something else in the data?
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First sentence of the article says again said last week’s tariffs were “reckless”.
But the entire article is about the Mexico/canada ones from a month ago. Completely deceptive title and story.
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NPR had a horrible headline today that said again supported Trump’s tariffs.
But the first sentence said he supported the Canada/Mexico auto industry one’s in March, and said last week’s were reckless
But was the article about last week’s? NOPE!
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Neither of those people are Carter or Biden, not very relevant to their presidencies
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Well I’d start with his opponent who publicly refuted the claims that he was a Muslim…